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My own opinion Brian, is to choose an implementation you like, and make
that a standard. If that means we clear the apr_poolfd_t, then cool, if
not, that's cool too. If you make the choice, and don't want to change
on Unix, I'll do it.
Ryan
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Brian Havard wrote:
> I've noticed that some implementations of apr_poll clear the apr_pollfd_t
> they're given, requiring reapplication of apr_add_poll_socket()s, and some
> don't.
>
> Apart from being inconsistent, it's a problem for me because the
> implementation I wrote for OS/2 doesn't clear the list but doesn't prevent
> duplicates either so when an app re-adds after an apr_poll() it results in
> duplicates in the list (it's just an array of descriptors). ApacheBench
> (ab) on OS/2 is currently broken because of this but I'm not sure what the
> correct fix is.
>
> I'd like to see consistent behaviour from apr_poll() on all platforms but
> which? My own preference is to not clear the list & therefore not require
> repeated apr_add_poll_socket() calls. This would require the select based
> implementations to copy their fd_sets before calling select().
>
> Thoughts?
>
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